Soldier with oversized feet to receive honorable discharge
Pvt. Jim Aufenthie, 19, from Rochester Minnesota, is slated for an honorable discharge from the Army at Fort Carson due to feet too large for boots. Attempts to fit 16 EEEEE combat boots failed despite help from boot makers and officials. He says his feet are big and flat and blames no one but his own anatomy.
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Colo
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Hubert H. Humphrey
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Rochester
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Hog quarantine lifted allowing swine movement to auction
Georgia officials revise quarantine on swine allowing slaughter hogs to move freely through auction barns. Feeder hogs may move with a 21 day quarantine at the destination. The change ends most movement restrictions aimed at curbing hog cholera.
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Atlanta, Ga
Georgia
Murderer Charlie Mobley Jr Granted 30 Day Stay
U S District Judge Frank Scarlett granted a 30 day stay postponing the execution of Charlie Mobley Jr a convicted murderer in Burke County Georgia. Mobley was set to die in the electric chair for a robbery murder conviction when the stay was issued.
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Brunswick, Ga
Charlie Mobley Jr
U.S
Frank M. Scarlett
Mobley
Georgia
Burke County
Methodist Ministers Receive Appointments in Georgia
Methodist ministers in south Georgia receive church assignments today. Bishop John Owen Smith appointed Bernard Robertson to lead the Valdosta District and C. E. Steele to head the Savannah District, with two new district superintendents also assigned.
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Macon
South Georgia
John Owen Smith
Atlanta
Bernard Robertson
Valdosta
C. E. Steele
Savannah
Book Returned After 51 Years At Minneapolis Library
Tillie the Mennonite Maid came home Thursday fifty one years after being checked out from the Minneapolis Public Library. Librarian Mrs. Kirk Holmes said she’s glad to have Tillie back but she’s grown decrepit and may be withdrawn from circulation. The library held a fines amnesty day to recover some of 35 000 volumes missing over the past decade.
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Minneapolis
Lutheran Church in America Leader Dr. Fry Dies at 67
New Rochelle New York Rev Dr Franklin Clark Fry head of the Lutheran Church in America died after cancer in New Rochelle Hospital at age 67. He had resigned as church president a week earlier due to ill health.
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New Rochelle
N.Y
Franklin Clark Fry
Lutheran Church In
Woman awakens as wig is stolen from car
A Cincinnati woman slept in a car on a city street and woke to discover a $239 wig had been stolen from her head after she dozed off Thursday morning. Police investigated the odd daytime theft.
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Cincinnati
Sirhan Faces First Degree Murder Indictment in Kennedy Slaying
Los Angeles DA Evelle Younger and prosecutors plan to ask the county grand jury to indict Sirhan Bishara Sirhan on a first degree murder charge for the shooting of Senator Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel. Additional indictments for wounding five others are also planned.
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Evelle C. Younger
Los Angeles County Grand Jury
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Younger
Kennedy
Edward Kennedy Seen Aiming for the White House
British commentators predict Sen Edward M Kennedy will pursue the presidency, carrying on the Kennedy family political legacy after the assassinations of his brothers. They note his Senate reputation and charm, with some saying he is the long term leader among the Kennedy brothers.
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London
Edward M. Kennedy
Massachusetts
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Tor
White House
Kennedy
Richard Scott
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Guardian
Bobby
Scott
Jack
Senate
Teddy
Peter Younghusband
Daily Mail
Mail
Lost boy Timothy Council searches for Ghent home
Brunswick authorities seek a missing 9 or 10 year old Ne gro boy Timothy Lee Council who says he boarded a Savannah bound bus at 7 15 p m Sunday wearing mustard trousers a black and gold shirt and black shoes He claims to live in Ghent a small town and to be visiting relatives Mr and Mrs James Copeland at 3389 Emily Place Savannah officials cannot locate those relatives or the Ghent place while his parents Forrest Lee and Gloria Jean Mingo are named and described.
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Ghent
Savannah
James Copeland
Timothy
Emily Place
Viola Hargrove
Maggie Hargrove
Gilda Hargrove
Forrest Lee
Gloria Jean Mingo
Warden Trades Places With Hostage In Oklahoma Prison Standoff
Warden Ray Page swapped positions with an escapee’s hostage in Checotah Oklahoma and persuaded the convict to surrender after the gunman held Marilyn Fain and Officer Faye Kirkpatrick at a hospital. The escapee Thomas J Rogers of Tulsa released a girl and the gunman was stopped near Checotah after roadblocks. None of the hostages were harmed.
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Okla
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Ray Page
Thomas J. Rogers
Tulsa
McAlester General Hospital
Faye Kirkpatrick
Marilyn Fain
Rogers
Kirkpa
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Page
Kennedy Funeral Rites Begin After Los Angeles Slaying
Thousands file past Robert F. Kennedy’s casket at St Patrick’s Cathedral in New York as questions swirl over his assassination in Los Angeles. Sirhan Sirhan is jailed in the shooting, with investigators seeking a possible accomplice and a polka dot dress woman seen near the scene.
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Robert Kennedy
California
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles
Good Samaritan
Sirhan Bishara Sirhan
Jordan
Israel
Sirhan
Peter Hagan
Kenedy
Communist Party of the United States
Samuel W. Yorty
RFK Delegates Face Uncertain First Ballot After Kennedy Death
About 300 Democratic National Convention delegates bound to Robert F. Kennedy remain unsure of how they will vote on the first convention ballot. AP tabulations show Kennedy had 274 to 414 pledged votes from 13 states and DC, with Indiana’s 63 votes still tied to a primary outcome but not yet bound to any individual. Delegates will be chosen at state conventions June 21, and the fate of Kennedy’s bloc remains unsettled as party officials note no binding rule to enforce loyalty.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Democratic National Committee
Kennedy
Indiana
Chicago
California
Sadasein
Three GOPs Run for Justice of the Peace Posts
Three candidates for Justice of the Peace announced today as Republicans. Sollie Allen seeks Thom asville district, Leon Hurst aims at Ochloohnee district, and J. W. Uelms runs in Meigs district. Filing closes at 5 pm Wednesday, June 12.
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Office of Justice of the Peace
Sollie Allen
Thomasville
Leon Hurst
Ochloohnee
J. W. Uelms
Meigs
Court Impounds Dade County Election Results in Run-off
In Tallahassee the State Supreme Court ordered impounding of Dade County election results from the Democratic run-off for a US Senate seat between Earl Faircloth and Leroy Collins. Oral arguments set for Wednesday as Faircloth seeks a recount citing potential mathematical error.
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State Supreme Court
Dade County
Earl Faircloth
Leroy Collins
High Court
Faircloth Campaign
Don Petit
Attorney General
Sen
Tom Spencer
Miami
Dade
Collins
Faircloth
Three Planes and One Pilot Lost in Vietnam Rescue
In Da Nang the U S Air Force announced three planes and one pilot were lost amid a massive three day rescue effort. Lt Kenney D Fields of Jacksonville, MA was saved after 181 sorties by a fleet of warplanes and helicopters near the Mu Gia Pass and Ho Chi Minh Trail area just above the 17th parallel.
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Vietnam
U. S
Air Force
Mu Gia Pass
17Th Parallel
Kenney D. Fields
Jacksonville
Fields
Corsair Ejected Over North Vietnam Facing Hostile Terrain
A carrier coast patrol off North Vietnam saw a Corsair take heavy antiaircraft fire and crash. A crewman ejected and parachuted into a jungle area surrounded by enemy forces but survived as helicopters and rescue teams arrived nearby.
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North Vietnam
Bialds
Ga Daman
Una
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